trieste contemporanea seminar on art history
the fragile pedestal
It's now possible to participate in the selection for the History of art seminar 'The fragile pedestal'. The deadline for submitting the application and the paper is the 1st of March, 2011
Scope of the Seminar
The purpose of the seminar is to offer European students and young researchers the opportunity to share their research work with a group of young scholars of different provenance and to verify work methods, with the supervision of an international team of professors and professionals in the field of contemporary art. Trieste Contemporanea plans to create a collaborative space for research parallel to the academic one, in which the transmission of knowledge among students and professors is organized according to the requests of the student. In this way, the student will have the opportunity to develop and correct his own work in the making, thanks to the confrontation with other participants and the suggestions and evaluation of the supervisors.
The seminar is an integral part of the CEI Venice Form for Contemporary Art Curators from Central Eastern Europe. The seminar will last two days and will take place in Trieste the 3rd and the 4th of June 2011 in the Studio Tommaseo (via del Monte) and will be in English.
Participation is free of charge and the expenses for travel and lodging for the participants will be covered by the organizing committee.
Themes for the paper
Forms of public art from World War 2 to our time: historical evolutions in monumental art; social implications, identity expectations and communicative functions in the production of site-specific art; new models of commissioned art with collective involvement.
How to participate
The call for paper is directed at students and young researchers of contemporary art up to and not over age 35. Since the seminar is a session of the CEI Forum and the cultural mission of Trieste Contemporanea is to create an observatory on art of Central Eastern Europe, part of the number of places for participants will be reserved to scholars from countries adherent to CEI (Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, the Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldavia, Montenegro, Poland, Rumania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine).
The applicants are invited to send a paper from 5 to 8 pages long in English on a contemporary art topic pertaining the theme of the seminar, an introductory bibliography and an abstract of 500 words by 01/03/2011.
Since the seminar is considered an instrument of support in the research work of the student, it is not necessary that the text present an investigation that has reached its results, but it should underline and present in a critical manner the boundaries of the area of research and the unresolved points that the candidate wants to bring to the discussion of the seminar. The text presented can be either produced ad hoc for the seminar, trace a work in progress or summarize a work which has already been presented in a degree or phd thesis or publication.
The text should be sent in attachment to tscont@tin.it (in pdf format) along with a curriculum vitae et studiorum. The subject of the message should be “history of art seminars: application”. In the text of the message the candidate has to provide: first name, last name, date and place of birth, citizenship, address of residency, e-mail address and telephone number.
Selection of participants
The selection of the candidates will be the exclusive responsibility of the organizing committee.
8 students will be selected.
Criteria for selection
It’s fundamental that the papers show aptitude for research and a profound knowledge of the issue pre-selected. The originality of the theme’s composition will be considered.
Starting on 01/04/11, the names of the selected participants will be announced.
Supervisors
Confirmed supervisors:
Marquard Smith (University of Westminster, London, England).
Edith András (Research Institute for Art History of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Budapest, Hungary).
Piotr Piotrowski (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan, Poland).
Organization of seminar
The selected texts will be sent to the supervisors a month before the opening of the works.
The seminar will open with introductory lectures by the supervisors. These lectures will offer the students and the public an insight in the practical work of research.
Each participant will have 30 minutes to present his work. Each presentation will be followed by 20 minutes of discussion during which the supervisors and participants will give an opinion on the work, giving suggestions regarding further investigation, corrections or ulterior paths to follow.
At the end of the individual presentations a round table will be held in conclusion.
Contacts
Ermanna Panizon
Trieste Contemporanea tscont@tin.it
0039 040 639187
www.triestecontemporanea.it